What's going on? First Maria Sierra reports that:
Steve Trousers was very kind too
Then Jo Reynolds carries on:
and the wonderful Mr Trousers [so far my very favorite list member... Who I would like to thank for the drink's, even if he did somehow manage to mistake me asking for Lemonade as Bacardi and Cola! ;)]
What on earth is he up to now? Watch out girls, he'll chew you up! Stephen may be outwardly alluring, but underneath he is a ruttish swine, somewhere between Nigel Havers in 'The Charmer' and Ian Beale in Eastenders' New Year's Eve special last year.
Mr Pinefox is actually a fox but he doesn't have a tale!
Oh but he does. Hundreds of them. Many of them draw on his singular vision of pop history and involve postmodern tricks. I must ask the man on the Clapham omnibus what he thinks of them. And then I'll ask my wife or servant. Bus freaks should read Bill Drummond's '45'. He does a bit of a Murdochesque geekwank fantasy over them at one point. It's a good book, actually, although the returns on reading investment are diminishing slightly as I near the later chapters. I feel very lucky to have had a friend who actually wanted it for her birthday, so I could buy it and borrow it back. I know picking on poorly written and informed reviews of bands is a bit of a sport for men too lazy to play ping pong, especially if English is not the author's first language, but have a look at this! It's a gas: http://www.slip.net/~scaruffi/vol6/belleseb.html The review of 'Fold Your Hands Child' is the crowning achievement, I think. But the obsession with bizarre track-by-track comparisons in the 'Tigermilk' one is great too. It almost seems to be parodying the rock review process itself. I'm sure Stephin Merrit will be thrilled to learn that Belle & Sebastian are considered to be 'a slightly more erudite version of Magnetic Fields'. Can I just say how much I love the version of 'O Come O Come Emmanuel'. I've only just heard it and I think it's magical. You can tell it's coming from people who understand the church, like Genevieve's Papa. A good sign is the way they have an odd house style on the pronounciation of 'Israel'. Our choirmistress used to do similar things with 'angels' (ain-gells) in 'O Come All Ye Faithful'. Talking of 'O Come All Ye Faithful', have Cosmo used that on their Christmas cover again this year? I do hope so. Louise Davies, are you still reading this? I think I saw you in the lift this morning. I caused a commotion. Nick x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+